Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Goods sit in Kelly 's bedroom surrounded by the bits and pieces that made up her world , Mike picks up her diary . |
| 2 | His eyes roved her features , as if he was recalling every item of the lines and planes that made up her face . |
| 3 | He tousled her hair that tumbled over her shoulders in a wild , bright mane of warmest auburn . |
| 4 | He laid the palm of his hand across Elisabeth 's forehead and pressed back the curls that tumbled over her brow . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you really want to go into that now ? ’ he challenged her softly , his ironic gaze returning briefly to her party face and the shiny , streaky curls that tumbled over her brow and about her neck , just skimming her bare shoulders . |
| 6 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 7 | Then to each of the heavily loaded bombers that roared over her head Jane had whispered , ‘ Good luck . |
| 8 | And when he too sat down again , he was that much nearer — this time as though not meaning to miss any nuance of an expression that came over her face . |
| 9 | It was the idea of falling into a sea of brains that turned over her insides . |
| 10 | He remembered what she was wearing at the disco on Saturday : a slippery , silver sort of dress that flowed around her body like oil . |
| 11 | All she wanted to do was shovel that crap up her nose , and if that 's how someone wants to pass their time , then there 's diddly-squat you can do to stop them . ’ |
| 12 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
| 13 | She reached into her pyjama jacket and hooked out the chain that hung around her neck . |
| 14 | Her hand strayed to the key that hung around her neck . |
| 15 | A lot of black hair that curled down her back . |
| 16 | She was a gaudy advert for her own talents ; her shaved skull crawling with tattoos that curled down her neck and back like hair . |
| 17 | The craving for the cans had returned , this time coupled with a dull , burning pain that seared along her arms and legs . |
| 18 | And a flash that shuddered up her spine to the back of her head |
| 19 | Then , slowly , she reached for her brush from the dresser , and began to slide it through the unruly tangle of her hair , taming the fly-away curls until they settled into a softly gleaming curtain that fell over her shoulders . |
| 20 | She spun round to face him with blazing blue eyes and then her head fell as the blue became blurred with tears , and pity for herself , for her mother and for the man she scarcely remembered came flooding with the tears that fell down her cheeks . |
| 21 | She had taken off the ribbon that kept back her hair and it hung about her shoulders , much longer than Seb had realised . |
| 22 | They loved stories that tripped off her tongue as easily as other women talked about waiting in the check-out queue at Tescos . |
| 23 | The other is Penny 's husband , Duncan , who indulged in the affair that brought about her death . |
| 24 | Gingerly Charles raised the sheet that lay over her thighs . |
| 25 | Claudia obediently washed Dana 's thick hair as she sat in the bath , sniffing appreciatively at the perfume that floated round her twin . |
| 26 | She was wearing something pink and delicate that floated around her body when she moved . |
| 27 | Fran sat up straighter , feeling the flurry of unease that ran along her spine as once again she wondered what Luke had overheard of that conversation . |
| 28 | She blinked , momentarily blinded , then experienced a sense of shock as she realised that her early warning system , that nervous tingle that ran down her spine , had betrayed her as her vision cleared and she realised Niall was standing beside her . |
| 29 | That look that comes over her face when you start probing . |
| 30 | Either through work which involves training the imagination ( in the sense of being an ‘ image-making ’ faculty ) or spontaneously , a woman may have an intimation of a female guide , a feminine presence that watches over her life . |